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meloy Name Meaning and History

  1. Norwegian (Meløy): habitational name from any of several farmsteads on islands so named, from Old Norse meðal ‘middle’ (or melr ‘sandbank’, ‘gravel bank’) + øy ‘island’.
  2. Norwegian (Mjoløy): habitational name from a farmstead named with mjol ‘flour’, ‘sand’ + øy ‘island’.
  3. Irish: variant of Malloy.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of meloy Families in the US in 1920
Number of meloy families
 27-52
 10-26		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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